“You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.”
— Johnny Depp
“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.”
— Bruce Lee
“Don’t fix what’s not broken.”
— Robert Atkins
“Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
— John Steinbeck
“Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.”
— Frank Frankfort Moore
“I belong deeply to myself.”
— Warsan Shire
“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
— Warren Buffett
“The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time.”
— Caroline Myss
“Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.”
— Antonio Porchia
“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
— L.M. Montgomery
“Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.”
— Homer
“The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.”
— Hillary Clinton
“Maybe there’s a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.”
— Leonard Cohen
“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
— Mark Twain
“It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.”
— Bette Midler
“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
— Drew Barrymore
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
— Lord Byron
“The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
— James Baldwin
“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.”
— Charlotte Brontë
“It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?”
— George Michael
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
— James Russell Lowell
“If you love something set it free, but don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
— Khalil Gibran
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
— Jonathan Swift
“It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.”
— Allen Ginsberg
“Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.”
“Though lovers be lost love shall not.”
— Dylan Thomas
“Moshing and broken glass just don’t go together.”
— Billie Joe Armstrong
“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”
— Dorothy Parker
We're on a mission of turning inspiring quotes into beautiful wallpapers. Start your week with a motivational kick. Don't miss out on our next weekly batch.
Join 48,000+ other people and subscribe to Quotefancy Weekly Digest.